$12,500
ROLEX REF. 2801 SINGLE BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH STEEL Rolex, Genève, Chronograph, case No. 104281, Ref. 2801. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and extremely rare, stainless steel Staybrite pocket watch with co-axial button chronograph, register and tachometer. C. Three-body, "bassine" polished. D. Matte silver with painted baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th second divisions with Arabic five minute/ second markers, outermost blue minute track and tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds at 6 and the 30-minute register at 12. Blued steel epee hands. M. 17', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Notes Diam. 49 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-09-18
